BACKGROUND Although state Medicaid programs cover cancer screening, Medicaid beneficiaries are less likely to be screened for cancer and are more likely to present with tumors of an advanced stage than are those with other insurance. The current study was performed to determine whether state Medicaid eligibility and reimbursement policies affect the receipt of breast, cervical, and colon cancer...

The establishment of the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (CCDPHP) at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) following the Conferences on the State of the Art in Quality Control Measures for Diagnostic Cytology Laboratories is briefly discussed. The CCDPHP is expected to play a major role in the CDC's cancer control program, including participation in establishing effec...

Objetivo: Diseñar una estrategia de intervención educativa sobre el examen Papanicolaou en mujeres 25 a 64 años. Metodología: Se trabajó un diseño tipo descriptivo correlacional corte transversal. Resultados: El 85 % las que mueren por cáncer cervical nunca tuvieron prueba del Papanicolaou. En los últimos 3 años porcentaje latinas (con seguro médico, acceso la salud, dental y vacunas), se hizo ...

Since its introduction by Papanicolaou (1942), the Papanicolaou staining procedure has gained universal acceptance in cytological examinations. In routine vaginal cytological preparations the Papanicolaou stain demonstrates monilia species and a number of different organisms, and also provides excellent cytological staining of both nucleus and cytoplasm. Chorioamnionitis is one of the commonest...

This integrative review aimed to evidence in the literature health surveillance activities that contribute to the increased coverage of the cervical Pap smear. The search was undertaken between April and May 2014 in the databases LILACS, CINAHL, MEDLINE and Scopus, using the keywords health surveillance, cervix neoplasm prevention, and Papanicolaou test, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. We s...

BACKGROUND It is noted that oral contraceptive pills increase the risk of abnormal Pap smear but results have been inconsistent across the populations. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the association between oral contraceptive pill (OCP) consumption and abnormal Pap smear in women who referred to Shahid Sadoughi and Madar hospitals in Yazd. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional des...

BACKGROUND Young adult women find it acceptable to be offered the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine postpartum. Little is known about the practice of administering the HPV vaccine during the postpartum period. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters database was used to develop a cohort of privately insured 18 to 26-year-old women with un...